This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ... regarded inscrip tions on stones as magical charms and defaced them also. There are also various legends of the period which bear out the supposition. Be this as it may, England was still covered with Roman ruins until the middle of the twelfth Century, when the Church interfered and broke the spell ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ... regarded inscrip tions on stones as magical charms and defaced them also. There are also various legends of the period which bear out the supposition. Be this as it may, England was still covered with Roman ruins until the middle of the twelfth Century, when the Church interfered and broke the spell that kept the unlettered people aloof. The monks and abbots then began to use the Roman ruins extensively as building materials whenever a monastery or a church was built in the neighbourhood. "The abbots of St. Alban's," says Matthew Paris, "built their Abbey from the bricks and stones of the Roman city of Verulamium." "So, too," says Mr. Thomas Wright, "the ancient city of Wroxeter was probably one of the great quarries from which the builders of Haughmond Abbey were supplied; and the churches of Wroxeter and Atcham, the adjoining parish, bear evidence of the same appropriation." It was the same elsewhere. It is very probable that the stones for Chedenhill Church came from Magna, as they certainly did for many of the walls in the village and farm buildings around. The Romans found Herefordshire a wide waste of uncultivated forest. Its steep wooded hills, its narrow sequestered valleys, and its numerous streams with their boggy margins, afforded an admirable means of defence to the active and fierce Silurians who occupied them. For very many years after the fall of Caractacus, his successors remained bitterly hostile to the Romans, and could only be held in subjection by the constant presence of Roman soldiers. The military stations throughout the county must therefore have been numerous, and yet so completely have they disappeared that it was not until the last century that any real knowledge was...
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